Intel Quad-Core Price and Performance Showdown

ThinSkin writes "The folks over at ExtremeTech have had enough time on their hands to benchmark Intel's entire quad-core lineup to determine which has the best performance for the dollar. While prices range from $183 to $1399, the real bargain is with Intel's latest Core i7 architecture which outpaced many other more expensive processors. For comparison's sake, Intel's fastest dual-core CPU was thrown into the mix and was, at times, not even competitive, which suggests that we're beginning to see more and more multi-threaded applications take advantage of four cores."

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Re:the computer is not just the cpu

[Mad Merlin]

I just don't understand why there aren't more consumer boards with a lot more sockets, using FB-DIMM or registered DDR. You have to go to server boards for that ($$$).

One word: Windows.

Nobody uses 64-bit Windows, and (sadly) Windows users make up the majority of the computer buying population, so board makers don't see any reason to provide for more than 4G of RAM. At the current DDR2 prices, I'd love to drop 16G or 32G in a new system, but it's simply not an option with consumer boards, as you've noticed. As usual, Windows holds back everyone.